Lorcan Cranitch
Department: Acting
Biography
Lorcan Cranitch is an Irish actor born in Dublin on 28 August 1959. He is known for playing DS Jimmy Beck in the television series Cracker.
Known For
Aisha
2022
The 50 Greatest Television Dramas
2007
Dancing at Lughnasa
1998
God on Trial
2008
Christmas at Castle Hart
2021
Empire State
1987
Hornblower: Loyalty
2003
Lakelands
2023
Róise & Frank
2022
Ghosts
2023
The Queen of Sheba's Pearls
2004
The Heart Surgeon
1997
Flying Blind
2013
LOLA
2023
The Playboys
1992
Macbeth
1998
Summer of the Flying Saucer
2008
The Venus de Milo Instead
1987
Tarrac
2023
Burn It All
2022
Yield
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The Legend of Longwood
2014
The Magic Toyshop
1987
Best: His Mother's Son
2009
Hornblower: Duty
2003
Love, Rosie
2014
Night Train
1998
You, Me & Marley
1992
Omagh
2005
Life After Life
1995
Deacon Brodie
1997
My Life for Ireland
2016
Family
1994
The Food Guide to Love
2013
Food of Love
1997
The Dig
2019
Titanic Town
1998
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
1991
Dah Dit Dah
1996
My Fragile Heart
2000
Herself
2020
Drifting
2020
Take Me Swimming
2017
The Dead Peasants Society
2007
National Theatre Live: The Playboy of the Western World
2026
The Three Urns
2026
A Greyhound of a Girl
2023
Cracker
1993
Rome
2005
The Bill
1984
Spooks
2002
Ballykissangel
1996
Bloodlands
2021
Law & Order: UK
2009
Shackleton
2002
The Palace
2008
The Play's the Thing
2006
Kelly
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Rebel Heart
2001
McCready and Daughter
2000
Hornblower
1998
The Heart Surgeon
1997
Vera
2011
Rebus
2000
Atlantis
2013
Fortitude
2015
Waking the Dead
2001
Code of a Killer
2015
Rig 45
2018
Close Relations
1998
Moonfleet
2013
1916 Seachtar Dearmadta
2013
The Crown
2016
Paradox
2009
Les Misérables
2018
Les Misérables
2018
Lewis
2007
Death in Paradise
2011
Silent Witness
1996
Acceptable Risk
2017
Trespasses
2025
Screen Two
1985
Cooper & Fry
2025
The Crimson Field
2014
Leonard and Hungry Paul
2025
The Last Kingdom
2015